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Everything about last night's Celebrity Apprentice was boring - VIDEO
by Joel Keller, posted Apr 13th 2009 12:02PM
For months, the three people who still watch NBC have seen the promos for this season of The Celebrity Apprentice; the big climactic scene was of Joan Rivers smashing down a glass out of some sense extreme frustration. Of course, it made the three of us wonder: did she get annoyed during a particularly tough task? Did one of her fellow celebs completely throw her under the bus? Was it Joan's way to finally lash out at Donald Trump's scattered and random management of the game?It turns out that it was none of these things. In fact, when the scene came in this week's episode, it was so anticlimactic that you might have missed it if you had turned away to get some ice cream. In fact, this week's entire two-hour episode ambled along so slowly that I thought NBC expanded it to three hours to take Kings' vacated timeslot.
Everything about the episode was just boring as sin, especially after Trump's out-of-left-field firings last week. The most interesting thing that happened during the first task -- a display campaign for LifeLock, who sells identity theft-protection that a relatively dedicated person could do themselves for free -- was Jesse James puking in a Port-A-Potty. Joan and Clint Black, who were at each other's throats last week, had nary a bad word to say to each other this time around. Both campaigns were uninspiring. And the firing of Brian McKnight, the losing project manager, went something like this:
Trump: Looks like you don't want to be here.
McKnight: Yeah, kinda.
Trump: You're fired.
McKnight: OK.
So, why did Joan go apeshit? Because Annie Duke sort-of, kind-of turned on her daughter Melissa. Sort of. I mean, Annie's a champion poker player. Anyone who didn't think she was going to bluff and connive her way through the game was probably kidding themselves. Yet Joan got upset anyway when Annie didn't do enough to criticize Brande Roderick. Instead of showing Annie being a two-face, the whole scene showed that Joan is overly protective of her middle-aged daughter, something anyone who's seen the two together already knows.
Anyway, the video of Joan's fit is below. Did she overreact? Let me know what you think in the comments.
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